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Goodbye, Tom
Both Willamette Week and the Oregonian are reporting that Mayor-elect (for a few more hours) Hales has asked Tom Miller for his resignation as PBOT director, effective with budget submissions in early February.
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A Little Bit of Multnomah County Road History
I’ve been reading Jewel Lansing’s “Multnomah”, a history of Multnomah County, and found a few juicy tidbits of early road history: A Multnomah Deputy Sheriff, Peter Rexford, proposed painting a yellow line down the middle of the Columbia River Highway, to make it safer – a practice that gained some popularity. The first Interstate Bridge…
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Updated: Hot Ticket: Enrique Peñalosa
Update: 5/29/12 For those who couldn’t get in the room, a video of the presentation is now available from the good folks at Crank My Chain: http://www.crankmychain.com/enrique-penalosa/planning-cities-for-people-an-international-perspective-video_5ee3f1c62.html Original Post: 5/1/12 Several local organizations have partnered to bring urban transportation rock star Enrique Peñalosa to Portland. Tickets are free, but limited. The only way to get…
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5 Surprising Things our Low-car Voter Guide Taught Me About the Local Elections
This guest post is by Michael Andersen, editor of Portland Afoot, PDX’s 10-minute newsmagazine about buses, bikes & low-car life. Thanks to the heroic efforts of a handful of volunteers for Bike Walk Vote, there’s been quite a bit of attention in this election season to local candidates’ positions on bicycling and walking. But the…
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Bike Walk Vote candidate meet-up event Wed. night
Bike Walk Vote, a local political action committee focused on active transportation, has an event coming up this Wednesday night called 4/4 Forward: Candidate Meet-Up & Campaign Kick-Off Party. The party will take place 7-9pm on April 4th at Crank Bicycles (2725 SE Ash St in Portland) and will be a chance for the public…